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My Samsung S2 was the last Android phone I was happy with.

Every one I personally owned since that was either janky or pulled some stupid tricks on system updates or something.

> But in this case it's more like if a policeman stalked and sniped someone that they had an arrest warrant for.

Disclaimers:

- I am no specialist on US constitution or laws but generally,

- I don't know this case kn particular except from what I have read from media, especially sites like HN

With that out of the way, from a common sense perspective, stalking and sniping a criminal who is a persistent threat to the public cannot possibly be unquestionably wrong, can it?

I mean, lets just go all out in a thought experiment that goes to the extreme end to prove my point: an American citizen sits in a known location and we know he is about to press the trigger that will release a highly contagious deadly pathogen inside 10 large cities, including at least one in US.

A police sniper has a steady aim on him from 100m and through a bug at the scene he hears him say: "this broadcast is coming to an end, I'll now press the button".

Will it not be correct for the police sniper to fire?

If it is, then the only question left is if it was legal for him to do it according to American law or not, and not something that should be an unrecoverable stain on someone's history.

Of course in real life, things are much messier.

> I honestly have no idea how Obama's reputation survived this. Taking executive action that completely undermines an individual's constitutional rights is monstrous. It's really sad that it was a total non-issue.

I'm "conservative" (although I abhor Trump) but I will say in defense of Obama that there clearly are exceptions from constitutional rights. For example, police are clearly allowed to use lethal force to stop an armed and dangerous person.

I cannot speak on the finer parts of US law, but it seems obvious to me that it isn't as clear cut at some people portray it.

Seems you are right. More context here: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/13077

Last I checked the "unfixed vulnerabilities" where regex Denial Of Service at build time, see https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11174

As someone who does actual software engineering (although I have done my share of software tree houses and garages as well):

If you don't have solid experience already: Don't plan your projects with anything except plain React configured with TypeScript. Use "Create React Application" (cra) to set it up and stick with the standards.

Everything else you can add later - if you need it - and in the mean time you have the chance to move faster without breaking things and make better decisions.

If you already have solid experience: consider this anyway if it is just another web application. I personally at least have seen a lot of time wasted because people always deviate from the standards both in React, Angular and Maven.

When time comes to add things we think we need, think about the tokens mentioned in https://boringtechnology.club

Thanks for reminding me!

Also, for those who already had wiby on top of their minds, https://search.marginalia.nu can be used to look for old or old-style websites.

First time it really hits home how large the risk is.

1/6 is a rather large risk.

What does FM mean in this context? I already see it mentioned in one top level comment and in the first thread but I don't see a definition here or on the project page.

Edit: after adding Large Language Model to my query it seems I found the explanation: FM stands for "Foundational Model".

https://kagi.com/search?q=llm+large+language+model+fm&r=no&s...

Common sense is a thing and what common sense can tell us absolutely isn't an extraordinary claim.

Edit:

By the way, what do you mean by threat level here? And FWIW, here I could have used quotes without being rude.

Also: if you read that sentence again you'll probably find that it wasn't just the use of quotes but the sentence that as a whole that made it stand out as rude.

I'm fairly sure someone here can provide you with a proper citation, but in the meanwhile I was very much online here and elsewhere during that time and IIRC it was common knowledge at the time and AFAIK nobody came up with a better hypothesis.

There was already ads in feeds or feeds that were nothing more than links.

But IIRC there were also sites that let you pay for a full feed and I think something good could have come out of it.

> Or because he's quoting the comment in his question.

On HN the usual way to quote is like I have done above.

I too react like the poster above you and would probably not quote that way except to ridicule. Hopefully there aren't many of these across my posts.

(As for an almost green account commenting on HN standards I have been here is some form or another since around 2009 I think, I just once in a while create a new account so it won't be trivially simple to doxx me.)

That, on top of branding it with the same name as the hated login system that[1] hamfistedly joined peoples accounts across vwry different contexts.

[1]: or so I heard, I wasn't affected, I postponed that part again and again until that part ended up being very smooth for me

Happens in certain offices I work in (I'm a consultant).

What I think happens is:

Someone puts a number of items in the dishwasher, some of which wasn't used at all, they came back on a trolley from a meeting.

Next person comes, checks two cups and think it is clean and than put everything in the cupboard.

Ironically, for me it was probably when they shut down Google+ that I finally changed my views on Google.

For me Google+ was a lot like HN:

Peaceful, quiet and beautiful and lots Open Source content and smart people.

I still look once or twice a year but it seems everyone who are into building social media wants to copy not only the very limited functionality of Twitter, down to its dumb limitations, but also its UX and aestheti.

The exceptions I am aware of are Hubzilla (which lools seriously interesting but just confuses me and has no obvious way to enter - and yes, I can create my own instance but I cannot find anyone else), Diaspora (which I think copies Facebook and which is also confusing) and MeWe (which superficially look like Google+ but insist on repeating Googles mistake WRT real name policy).

It is understandable when it deals with Iran, a terrorist organization sitting on top of an oil field, terrorizing large parts of the Middle East (note that nowhere do I criticize the overthrowing of the old regime, I just criticize what they themselves is/became).

Then you should be fine.

I'd still recommend resisting chat control since once that is in place they'll soon go after independent hosters.

I also have such a friend but only because it was near the end of hell week (or what you guys call it, my memory is a bit hazy what exact words he used 25 years ago), not because Russian sanctions made any starve :-)

"The US" doesn't accuse anyone.

We who know anything about Russia might however.

And, I think if you look around a little you'll find access to outside information and options to distribute it way harder in Russia.

Also, the lies they serve are hilarious: just today I saw a video with one of the chief propagandists claiming on TV that people in the UK hunt squirrels for food :-)

Only as long as enough others are in on the idea.

I.e MyAwesomeBlockchain can be totally awesome but since no one uses kt it is useless.

This will be the fate of well over 90% of the block chains that exist today I think. In fact I guess more than 90% of them.

Not only that but Postgres doesn't take two days to install properly. (Admittedly I'm talking a full from scratch Red Hat server with Oracle DB, Oracle managed data disks and Apex, bit still.)

And if you are worried, don't upload to a some smaller provider either because some of them might have fun looking at the backups of the things that people find to to sensitive to upload to Google.

Problem is people have no idea what Facism and Nazism is.

You find people here in the west who hate Jews claiming to be anti-facists and people starting a massive invasion of a very peaceful central European country - all while repeating much of Hitlers playbook - while claiming they do it to crush the "Nazis" there.

One problem: as far as I understand a number of high profile instances enforced a rule where they would block any instance that didn't block certain other instances.

I'm all for blocking a good number of instances myself, but putting limits on others, that is a whole different thing.

I really don't buy this and I will explain:

> There are open standards for browsers to communicate with software deployed in web 3, regardless of what an isp would care about doing.

There are older, and more widely open standards for browsers to communicate with web servers.

Doesn't prevent isps from meddling which is the whole point of this discussion.

> and I cannot register on Linux without a phone number.

Yep, but it doesn't have to be a real, publicly routable one. You can get one from Telegram without having to provide government provided ID like I have to for real phone numbers. See sibling comment.

> That's not how it works.

Can you tell me how it works if there isn't a port or a dns name or an ip that can be blocked?

The thing about free press is some of them at least are pro free press, but only for "respectable" press.

Have recently worked with a bootcamped guy (although I should admit he had an engineer degree first) but my impression of that boot camp program at least is very good:

They had worked on some serious case studies with real version control, real databases, real bugs and he basically came ready to solve real life problems.